I love Helix as a vim user for decades. It brings fresh wind in a pretty entrenched world for people that think neovim is not neo enough.
That being said, I'm pretty disappointed by the decision for an obscure plugin language. Moreover, I'm disappointed even more, that the necessity of a strong and tried and proven sandbox is not given enough attention.
The recent xz disaster just proves once more that we cannot go on
like this.
An editor that requires tens of plugins from tens of different parties just to be usable will not have a future if it has no answer to the supply chain question. This is really not just vim and neovim, Visual Code Studio is equally bad and most full IDEs are only marginally better.
In my opinion zellij is on the right track here and I had wished Helix had adopted a similar solution.
That being said, I'm pretty disappointed by the decision for an obscure plugin language. Moreover, I'm disappointed even more, that the necessity of a strong and tried and proven sandbox is not given enough attention.
The recent xz disaster just proves once more that we cannot go on like this.
An editor that requires tens of plugins from tens of different parties just to be usable will not have a future if it has no answer to the supply chain question. This is really not just vim and neovim, Visual Code Studio is equally bad and most full IDEs are only marginally better.
In my opinion zellij is on the right track here and I had wished Helix had adopted a similar solution.